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Lombard

The UK’s largest provider of asset finance.

Customers

Lombard is one of the UK’s oldest and largest asset finance partners. The company founders started hiring out rolling stock to the railways over 150 years ago. Today, Lombard maintains this forward-looking entrepreneurial approach — helping businesses obtain the vehicles, machinery, equipment, technology, marine vessels and aircraft, they need in order to operate effectively.

Asset finance is a form of funding that uses the asset as security and helps businesses release working capital that can be used for other business requirements. It is a flexible means of funding capital investment without taking money out of reserves.

Lombard knows that today's businesses must invest in up-to-date assets to achieve sustainable growth and they make it easier for businesses to access the finance they need to secure those assets.

Lombard’s support doesn't end at asset finance. It also assists businesses in many more ways, connecting them with quality banking services, vehicle funding and fleet management and specialist technology solutions that help take businesses to the next level.

Partnerships

  • Lombard partners with the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) to present the Lombard Trophy, the biggest pro-am golf tournament. After a successful inaugural staging in 2016 the WPGA Lombard Trophy is back to attract even more entries from WPGA Professionals and female amateurs. Lombard is backing the women’s tournament to reflect its support for equality and diversity and to encourage the development of the women’s game at grassroots level.

  • Lombard partners with EEF – The manufacturers’ organisation – to support continuing excellence within the manufacturing industry. EEF’s extensive knowledge of UK manufacturing means they’re able to influence policy-making at local, national and European levels, pushing for policy changes their members want to see. Our involvement helps to ensure the sector’s reputation for innovation, productivity and quality is maintained, through the provision of effective funding solutions.

Did you know?

  • Lombard helps businesses finance everything from cars and vans to 3D printers, potato bagging plants to anaerobic digesters, the Welsh Rugby coach to solar power digital signage on the M1.
  • Lombard’s customers include the owners of Europe’s largest vodka bottling plant, the UK’s only washing machine manufacturer and the special effects company for movies such as The Hunger Games, Marvel films, James Bond and Batman.
  • Lombard’s biggest ever deal was worth over £395m, financing 78 trains for Virgin Rail.
  • For the ninth year running, Lombard has won the Business Moneyfacts Best Leasing & Asset Finance Provider Award (2009–2016) – accolades awarded by an independent publication and judged on user feedback and external research.

More from Lombard

From manufacturing machinery to agricultural equipment and vehicles, Lombard’s expert teams specialise in funding specific assets.

See how Lombard’s customers have benefitted from its funding solutions.

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